Aitken, William B., Distinguished families in America descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke.

(New York and London :  The Knickerbocker Press,  1912.)

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14                    THE BEEKMAN FAMILY

(a)    Sarah Morris Fish, bom Feb. 25, 1838, who
married Sidney Webster.

(b)    Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish, born March il,
1839, married Frederick S. G. d'Hauteville.

(c)    Julia Kean Fish, born May 2, 1841, married
Colonel Samuel NicoU Benjamin, U. S. A.
Children:

(i)   -William M. Benjamin.

(ii)    Hamilton Fish Benjamin   married Emily

Bacon,
(iii)    Capt. Julian A. Benjamin, U. S. A.

(d)     Susan Leroy Fish, born August 31, 1844, mar¬
ried William E. Rogers of Philadelphia, Pa.

(e)     Nicholas Fish, bom February 19,1846, married
Clemence S. Bryce and had children:

(i)    Elizabeth Fish married R. B. Potter,
(ii)    Hamilton Fish, Jr.

(f)    Hon. Hamilton Fish, Jr., born April 27, 1849,
married in 1880 Emily M. Mann.

(g)    Stuyvesant Fish, bom June 24, 1851; married
in 1876 Marion Graves Anthon; children:

(i)    Marion Fish, married Albert Z. Gray,
(ii)    Stuyvesant Fish, Jr., married Mildred Dick.
(iii)    Sidney Webster Fish,
(h)    Edith Livingston Fish, born April 30, 1856,
married June 6, 1883, Hon. Hugh Oliver North-
cote, who died March 30, 1900, fifth son of the
first Earl of Iddesleigh; children:
(i)    Hugh Hamilton Northcote.
(ii)    Cicely Monica Julia Northcote.
(6)    Peter   Gerard   Stuyvesant,   born  in   1778;   died
August 16, 1847; had a large farm in the neighbor¬
hood of the Bowery and Eighth Street and gave part
of it to New York City for Stuyvesant Park.    He
married first Susan Barclay; second Helen Sarah
Rutherford.    Not having any children he was de¬
sirous that his large estates should be owned by
some one who might perpetuate the name of Stuy-
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